Soldering-wire spool and flux-container



A. C. BECKER;

SOLDERING WIRE SPOOL AND FLUX CONTAINER.

APPLICATION men DEC.26, 1919.

Patented Jan. 18 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH C. BECKER, OF OAKVILLE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE CHASE COMPANIES, INC., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, -.A CORPORATION.

SOLDERING-WIRE SPOOL AND FLUX-CONTAHVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 26, 1919. SerialNo. 347,625.

and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure l, a view in side elevation of my improved soldering-wire spool and fiux-con-' tamer.

Fig. 2, a view thereof in vertical central section.

Fig. 3, a detached view in elevation of the combined stopper and spatula.

y invention relates to an improved soldering-wire spool and flux-container, designed to be used for the convenience of all persons who have occasion to do soldering operations, particularly in a small way; the object being to produce for the purpose described, at a very low cost, a simple, compact and convenient carrier for the wire and flux.

With these ends in View, my invention consists in a combined soldering-wire spool and flux-container having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a spool 2 having a concentric flux-containing cavity 3 and formed at its opposite ends with flanges 4 and 5 between which soldering-wire 6 is wound in superimposed coils. The open upper end of the cavity 3 is closed by a suitable stopper 7 mounting a spatula or spreader 8 which enters the flux 9 in the cavity the bottom of which is. closed by the lowerend of the body of the spool. The wire may, coarse or fine in diameter and length, while the amount of flux may be proportioned to the amount of wire so that of course, be

- there will be no waste.

My improved carrier, as described, provides a simple, convenient, and compact method of equipping a soldering outfit with wire and flux which, as they must be used at the same time, are conveniently combinedin one package. In soldering, one or two coils, more or less, of the wire are unwound. The spool held in the left hand, then becomes a handle, as it were, by which the free end of the wire is guided and directed to the point of soldering. With the spool held in the left hand, and used to guide the free end of the wire, the right hand is used to hold the stopper for the application of the flux with the spatula, which is then returned with the stopper to the spool after which the right hand manipulates the soldering iron or is free to work with the flame in flame-soldering.

I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a combined soldering-wire spool and flux-conof any desired Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

tainer, comprising a wooden spool formed 

